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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18432	Fulfordo et Fulfordae A sermon preached at Exeter, in the cathedral church, the sixth day of August commonly called Iesus day 1594. in memoriall of the cities deliuerance in the daies of King Edvvard the sixt. Wherein is intreated of the goodnes of God toward man, and of the ingratitude of man toward God. By Iohn Charldon, Doctor of Diuinitie. In which also some fewe thinges are added, then omitted through want of time.	Chardon, John, d. 1601.	1595 (1595)	STC 5000; ESTC S107731	37,202	98

what Counsells haue decreed what custome hath confirmed and what the Pope his vnlawfull soueraignetie hath established which seemeth to vs all one as if he had said The Scriptures are to no purpose or as good as nothing Of which opinion was Cardinall Hosius who in his booke De expresso Verbo Dei Fol. 242. in lit F. writeth thus Vanus est labor qui scripturis impenditur It is but lost labour that is spent in the scriptures Nos Dei de caelo sententiam potius expectabimus VVee will rather expect Gods pleasure from heauen Scriptura enim creatura est egenum quoddam elementum For the Scripture is a creature and a certaine needy element And in conclusion he pronounceth Sentence definitiue in this wise in Epilogo ad Sigismundum regem Poloniae Quod Ecclesia docet expressum Dei verbum est quod contra sensum et consensum Ecclesiae docetur expressum Diaboli verbum est That which the Church teacheth by the Church I trow meaning the Pope and his Cardinalls is the expresse worde of God what is taught against the meaning and consent of the Church is the expresse word of the Deuil And long before him Guido editus An. 1495. hee which compiled that sottish booke Manipulus curatorum to iustifie the whole matter stuffe of Confirmation putteth this downe for a Maxime infallable truth In Tract 3.1 Par. 2. de mat confir Licet non inueniatur in canonicis epistolis Diui Petri tamen Dominus Papa habet in decretis Romanae ecclesiae c. That though it bee not found in the canonicall Epistles of S. Peter yet our Lord the Pope hath it in the decrees of the Church of Rome this mounteth farre aboue and beyond all other authoritie whatsoeuer Thus Christ must Surrender to Beliall the Spouse must giue place to Babilon Truth to falsehood and the written worde to vnwritten verities humane traditions must be hote and liuelie letters and the scriptures cold dead Elements if wee hunger our meate must bee chaffe in steed of wheate and if we call for drinke it must come from their broken and puddlepits full of mire and filth Ier. 2.13 which neither haue nor are able to hold the water of power to refreshe the withered soule of man for the veines of the fresh and cleare springing waters they haue stopped vp that by this drift the sayings both of Ieremy and Esaie verified in the Iewes as well pore as rich haue beene brought on vs. The Elders of the Iewes saith Ieremie sent their little ones to the wells and they finding no water with shame and confusion returned with their vessels emptie The poore and the needye saith Esaie 41.17 sought water but no where found they any their tongue was euen withered with thirst Euen so these men by breaking in peeces the pipes and conduits and by damming and choaking the fountaines of liuing waters with dirte and mire haue brought the people of God into a pittifull thirst and this was a misery and a rufull state we haue felt it let vs beware We are counselled if we will follow counsell and we are warned if we will take warning to beware of such deceiuers least otherwise it come to passe that as the Serpent beguiled Eue through his subtiltie so our minds should be corrupt from the simplicity that is in Christ 2. Cor. 11.3 If they bring with them Esaies commission and crie as he doth Heare and hearken for the Lord hath said Let vs receiue them as embassadours sent vs from God and let vs beleeue them Otherwise if they breed suspition let vs make proofe as did those noble men of Beroea noble not so much for birth as for courage in embracing the word of God with all readinesse and as they did Act. 17.11 let vs searche thr scriptures daylie and diligentlye whether the thinges which they teach be so or not And then if vpon due trial proofe wee finde that they bring vs counterfet coyne that they come with the Reuelations of men which flow not from the mouth of the Lorde what countenance soeuer they carry where they Angells from heauen that did vs the message by the commandement of Saint Paul to the Galathians 1.8 let vs hold them accursed And yet there are that say and will say The Lord hath said it when the Lord neuer spake the worde Such are the Prophets of Antichrist not vnlike vnto those of Israel which Prophesied after their own fantasie and said the Lord saith it albeit the Lorde had not spoken Eze. 13.7 But beholde what the worde of the Lorde is against such Prophets which follow their owne spirite and teach the people the counsailes of their own hearts I am against them mine hand shal be vpon the Prophets that see vanitie diuine lies they shall not be in the assemblie of my people neither shall they bee written in the writing of Israel Verse 8.9 to wit in the booke of life in which the true Israelites are written neither shall they enter into the land of Israell and that because they haue deceiued my people saying peace which Ieremie 6 14. calleth a sweet word but it was not so for there was no peace one built vp a wall and others daubed it with vntempered morter Eze. 13.10 But saith the Lord Ver 13.14 I will destroy the wall which they haue daubed with vntempered morter and bring it downe to the ground by a stormy wind which shall breake forth in my wrath and by a greate shower in mine anger and hailestones in mine indignation so that the foundation thereof shall be discouered and it shall fall they shall be consumed in the midst therof and shall know that I am the Lord. Thus will the Lorde accomplish his wrath vpon the wall and vpon them that daubed it with vntempered morter euen with their own deuises vnder the authoritie of Gods word If then the Lord will thus deale with the wall and with the daubers that daubed it with vntempered morter let the builders take heed how they build the wall and the daubers howe they daube it least the Lorde pull downe both wall and morter Ver 15. and they say the wall is no more neither the daubers thereof And this much of the first part namely how Esaie by way of exclamation hath inioyned by the commaundement of God the heauens to heare and the earth to hearken vnto the message which hee is willed to doe vnto them from the mouth of the Lord. Nowe the Prophet goeth onward with the Lords most lamentable complaint concerning the ingratitude of his people for whome he had done many and great good turnes The complaint is this I haue nourished and brought vp children but they haue rebelled against me A most grieuous complaint which consisteth of two partes In the first he expresseth his benefits bestowed vpon them In the second hee declareth their ingratitude and rebellion against him Hee expresseth his benefits towardes them in